Elaine Petrone, stress-reduction and fitness expert and creator of ball therapy, has both taught and lectured to physicians, physical therapists, and psychotherapists. She has researched lower-back and upper-body pain at Mt. Vernon Hospital in New York and been involved with postoperative recovery at the Rehabilitation Center of Southwestern Connecticut.
Petrone has consulted for Fortune 500 company Philip Morris, and her ball therapy program has been featured in numerous publications and on several nationally syndicated television shows. For the past 20 years, she has taught in the areas of stress reduction, back pain, postoperative recovery, alignment, breathing, and movement awareness.